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The British Mandate in Palestine until 1945, P2 - Coggle Diagram
The British Mandate in Palestine until 1945, P2
The Arab Revolt, 1937-1939
- As Palestinians were really angry about Peel's reccomendations, they revolted with violent attacks against the Jews and British
- Along with 15,000 men from the Haganah, the 50,000 British troops used Harsh tactics to combat the Arabs
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- In 1939, when the revolt ended, 250 British troops, 300 Jewish troops and 5,000 Arabs had been killed, with at least 15,000 wounded
- Over 10% of the Arab males had been imprisoned/exiled.
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The Holocaust
- As WW2 was ending in 1945, British troops discovered a Nazi concentration camp holding 60,000 Jewish prisoners, with about 13,000 dead bodies
- A lot of the Prisoners were extremely ill from widespread disease, or suffering from malnutrition
- This was just ONE of the camps
- As the British discovered more and more camps, they found out that approximately 6 million Jewish men, women and children were killed in total
- The ones that did survive, lived through hard labour, beatings, tortures, trauma of losing their families and homes, and had no reason to stay in Germany